Dayna Casey (AU/NL, 1988) I am a visual artist somewhere between research, writing, publishing, and graphic design. I am drawn to unpacking objects or symbols and using them as story-telling devices to help think through complex entangled political matter(s).
Currently I am collaborating with Eline Benjaminsen on Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. We are unravelling financial slang and its etymological histories, revealing the absurd (super)natural ‘fictions’ that shape our worldly ecology. We do this together in our communal studio in the Hague. This project is expanding Sami Hammana’s initial lexicon.
My 2023 will be spent in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck post-academy for a year-long residency, where I will most likely expand my work Fertile Imaginaries, a vessel for 92% Water. An upcoming writing piece for a Well Projects publication, will also feature this ongoing research.
Recently, I have just finished a series of three zines for the KABK Studium Generale series: An exploration of wxtch craft as a queer feminist liberatory practice, as editor, program touchstone and designer. Together with Erika Sprey and many others.
I spent two years at the Dutch Art Institute, where we roamed through Europe with an amazing group of people. Thorough guidance was given on artistic research around anxieties of sense-making, contextualised in the ecological crisis. Cultural critic Rachel O’Reilly guided me while looking into the patriarchal infrastructures and modernist scientific languages that produce and exploit doubt. It helped me think through what is at stake when thinking about pluralist feminist or interpretative “magical” art practices, how this can be exploited by the right, but more importantly emphasising the necessity of decolonial knowledge and perception. If you want a digital copy, let me know.
Here is a small grasp of recent projects, writings, and design work. There are small descriptions if you hover and more imagery if you click.
I work on commissions in graphic, editorial and publication design, for which you can hire me :-)
Here is also my old archive.
info(at)daynacasey.com
+31 (0)6 4164 7070
Based in The Hague, NL
Education:
2018 – 2020:
Dutch Art Institute, Art Praxis
Roaming Academy, EU
Master of Art 2020
2019 – 2020
Critical theory Seminar with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Anthropology and Global Fantasy
Project group with Sepake Angiama, Nina bell F., Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons: All about my mother (on care, reproductive labour, the familial and the institutional)
School of Expressions: experimental project on knowledge other than the systematised – PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2018 – 2019
Critical theory Seminar with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Queer Theory and the Critique of Energy
Project group with James Bridle, Navine G.Khan-Dossos, Van Abbemuseum: Agency – Everyday practice and global power
Writing workshop Beyond Fictocriticism curated by David Maroto
2008 – 2013
Royal Academy of Art – The Hague, NL
Bachelor of Graphic Design
2011
Erasmus Exchange Programme, Visual Communication, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
2001 – 2007: VWO
RECENT WORKS/SHOWS/PUBLICATIONS
2022
Upcoming year-long residency at Jan van Eyck post-academy
Working on Well Projects writing piece for Publication
Working on Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas with Eline Benjaminsen, Sami Hammana
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
Nest Den Haag, every moment a junction, w melanie bonajo, Maaike Gouwenberg, Erika Sprey. Image artwork.
2021
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Fall Sessions
Fertile Imaginaries part of Hoops Purity is not an Option Climate Care reading group, The Rewilding Years: On a Nature Culture Learning Site Floating University, Berlin
Fertile Imaginaries reading on Radio Robida, Robida Collective writing broadcasted
Textile piece for Kasvio, Fertile Imaginaries: Oocyte Freeze/Donation at Kasvio, Food as Story-telling curated by Staci Bu Shea
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
Artworks Bare Fruits for Georgie Sinclair and Rosie Haward – feminist queer literature podcast
Collective SpellZazie Stevens, Daisyworld Magazine #2
2020
MA critical theory thesis, Epistemic Anxiety: Disembodied Objectivity and the Oscillating Climate Sceptic – setting the stakes for a feminist quantum imaginary supervised by Rachel O’Reilly
Gossip and Joyful Militancy reading together with Marthe Prins, Diptych, Amsterdam
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water reading as part of Daisyworld Magazine launch at San Serriffe, Amsterdam
It Doesn’t Have to Taste Good to be Affective collective presentation with coop All About my Mother, Casco Art Institute, Radio Kootwijk
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water published in Zazie Stevens' Daisyworld Magazine
A queer rewriting of the Last Will and Testament with Anakin Xersonsky and Saskia Burggraaf, at Radio Kootwijk
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water Aeroponic Acts, Kootwijk, Dutch Art Institute (Installation, performance)
2019
How do Bodies Read Together? performative installation and reading at Grote Kerk, Groede
Reading evaporated tears collective presentation with coop “Agency,” Parco Naturale Regionale Molentargius-Saline, Cagliari, Sardinia
Transitioning to (il)logics performative reading at Silent Green, Berlin
Terms of Now performative reading at Patronaat, Epen
2017
Next, Rising, Mood flags on show at Zabriskie Point, Geneva
Next, Rising, Mood in Held Together with Water at Le Commun − Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (BAC), Geneva
INTL, prints on show, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
2016
Things to Remember (Page Not Found) with Radna Rumping, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
